Al-Tina City- Until recently, the city of Al -Tina, located on the borders of Sudan with Chad, was known as its vital commercial activity, as it was a strategic customs point in the Darfur region, and the commodity trucks were flowing inside the local markets, and the harvest season brought a recovery to the region that relied on agriculture and the trade of basic crops.
But the picture turned upside down; Today, the city has become one of the most prominent displacement centers in Sudan, after it was invaded by waves of rapid support forces attacks. With every day, the suffering of thousands of people who found in the mud in the last haven, but it has become burdened with more than its ability to endure, amid almost complete absence of international support.
“We have no shelter except temporary structures that hardly protect us from rain and heat. We lack food and clothes, and there are no blankets or even a suitable sewage,” said Zainab Al -Taher, who arrived in Al -Tina two months ago to Al -Jazeera Net.
Zainab was living in Zamzam camp near Al -Fasher, the capital of North Darfur State, which was invaded by the Rapid Support Forces, causing hundreds of killing and pushing thousands towards Tina.
In the face of this collapse, local societal initiatives emerged known as “Takaya”, working to bridge the hunger in the absence of humanitarian organizations.
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“We cook lentils and porridge daily in large pots. This meal has become a symbol of survival,” Sumaya Kitr, who is an activist and volunteer in a group kitchens, told Al -Jazeera Net, stressing that the taca has become a space to protect children from the streets and mothers from collapse.
Al -Tina, which is about 340 km west of the city of El Fasher, has recently turned into a model of societal resistance in the face of famine and fear, as people make stories of their survival from the heart of pain, hoping that this chapter will not fold from suffering without the world seeing it.
In the midst of these harsh scenes, the name of Mohamed Saleh, a member of the city’s emergency room, is shining as one of the most prominent civil figures who are fighting a human battle silently and coherent.
Speaking to Al -Jazeera Net, he says they said, “They created 8 collective kitchens, but most of them stopped as a result of the lack of financing, and only kitchen remains alive,” stressing that entering the fall season increased the complexity of the situation; Rains and torrents caused the roads to cut off the roads, which prevented the arrival of supplies and food aid, and the city isolated from its surroundings.
It is directed to decrease in continuous calls through local and international media networks, calling for the necessity of urgent response before the situation is exacerbated to catastrophic levels. His remarks have succeeded in highlighting the crisis, and a mobilization of modest but influential international solidarity.
According to unofficial statistics, more than 9,000 displaced people receive daily meals from these tats, although funding depends entirely on individual donations collected by the youth of the Chamber through the applications of correspondence and the Sudanese expatriate networks, as well as the limited support provided by the Council of Emergency Rooms North Darfur.
Those in charge of these kitchens face strenuous challenges, starting with the interruption of financing and electricity and do not end with the lack of communication, while “Al -Tina” tries to fortify its displaced efforts with steadfast self -efforts.
He explains that the kitchens have become unable to receive the basic materials, even lentils began to run out, and water does not arrive regularly, warning that their work stopped will lead to a confirmed famine in the city’s vicinity within days.
In light of these challenges, local appeals are increasing through communication platforms, while the youth of the Chamber continues a campaign entitled “Lentils” aimed at collecting catering from neighboring areas, despite the complexities of transportation and road roughness.
Multiple efforts
The history of the humanitarian response in Tina dates back to the early days of the war in April 2023, when the emergency room began organizing organized evacuations for the needy families from El -Fasher to Tina, passing through dirt roads on dilapidated trucks.
Mohamed Youssef, the Chamber’s logistical support official, talks about those beginnings, saying to Al -Jazeera Net, “Before we started cooking food, we started taking people out of the bombing, and we transferred dozens of families to relative safety inside Tina, then we established an emergency room in the Krieri camp in eastern Chad to receive the displaced who did not find shelter.”
Youssef adds that the Chamber supported initial treatment operations within the city, despite the absence of medicines and equipment, and contributed to providing basic materials for the injured and pregnant women.
In turn, a local activist says that “the hospice is no longer just a boil, but rather a social laboratory that restores the relationship between man and his city, as it turned into a space that brings together displaced mothers, draws joy on the faces of children who lost their schools, and provides psychological support to patients through simple group sessions supervised by volunteers from educational backgrounds.”
Suhabiya Saleh, one of the displaced women from the city of El Fasher, is talking about her experience in the hospice, saying, “We did not know anyone when we got to Al -Tina, but the hospice gathered us, gave us and embraced our children,” adding, “The place was not clean or safe, but he returned to us a feeling that we are human, we are not completely forgotten.
Most of the new displaced people coming from Zamzam camp have built temporary housing of local herbs, but they do not provide any protection from rain and daytime heat, which is getting worse due to the lack of tree cover in the semi -desert region.
Facing with rain
“There must be an urgent and immediate procedure by international relief organizations and foreign governments to support the displaced,” says Afaf Hakar, who is an activist and supervisor of the shelters in the region.
“My family also faces difficulty sleeping due to weather conditions, as we lack the ranks, blankets and adequate clothes for heating,” she added to Al -Jazeera Net.
Despite the escalation of humanitarian appeals and appeals, international visits have not been recorded to Al -Tina since mid -2024, despite the sending of those in charge of the Takkaya dozens of appeals to international organizations.
Local officials confirm that the crisis is getting more complicated in light of the entry into the rainy separation, as the emergency room expects that the number of expatriates will increase by 30% during the next month, while the capabilities are declining sharply.
Since April 2023, the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces have been fighting bloody and destructive warfare, killing more than 20,000 people, displacement and asylum of about 15 million, according to the United Nations and local authorities, while a study prepared by American universities estimated the number of deaths by about 130,000.
